CRICKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 1994, 12 May 1892, Page 30

CRICKET.

NOTES BY SLIP.

In the Sydney Referee " Not Out " says :— "The proposals to send an Australian team to England in 1893 is,' since the defeat of Lord Sheffield's team by Australia in the test matches, likely to.be fulfilled. The editor of Cricket in the latest issue to hand says 'the general feeling is, eyen- among .those' who were averse to such a tour in 1892, that the situation has changed considerably since the county secretaries voted against ~.a~ reception of Australian cricketers until the summer of 1894. As a matter of fact, "l think lam riot betraying any confidence in ' saying that most of those who represented the opposition in December are not at all indisposed to welcome an Australian team next year, provided always that there is a reasonable assurance of the combination being representative.' These remarks are those of Mr C. W. Alcock, secretary of the Surrey County Cricket* Club, one who takes a deep interest in the game, and who has, I believe, the fixing up of the engagement list of the proposed 1893 i team. ' He hits the right nail on the head in saying the team must be representative of Australian cricket. Mr Victor Cohen, hon. treasurer to the New South Wales Cricket Association, 'has. now every reason to believe that the team will be either fully representative or almost so." • The co-operation. has been secured in the scheme of most of the .chief players in the three colonies, from whom, a committee of advice has been formed— viz., Messrs A. C. Bannerman, C. T. B. Turner, J. M. Blackham, W. Bruce, George Giffeii, and J. J. Lyons. It is proposed that the trio .who picked the teams to represent Australia— Messrs Giffen, Blackham, and Turner— in the test matches should make the final selection. The only cricketer of the first water who, J it is just now thought, cannot be induced to go is Harry Moses:

Neither W» L. Murdoch nor J. J. Ferris will be included in the team, -as they are now regarded as Anglicised Australians, who are no longer identified with cricket in the colonies. The Queensland cricketer, Conyngham, is spoken of as a likely member of the team, as also a few others who have not quite attained the foremost rung of the ladder m the cricket world. Still (remarks "Not Out") there is almost another season to go through ere the difficulty of selecting the final team is surmounted, and who knows what those months might bring forth. Although bowlers like Ferris are not to be found everywhere, perhaps a new light will rise to take his place. It is stated .that the little unpleasantness between Dr Grace and Mr Briscoe, with regard to certain "remarks" made by the former % to the umpire during the return match between England and New South Wales, has been satisfactorily settled.